UK sending 1,200 troops to fill in as ambulance crews strike

Kind of funny, people trained to kill people doing a job to save lives.

when 'government' feeds their own greed, and at the same time exhibits gross disdain for 'the people', the people will strike..... which is better than a bloody revolution, my view.

Cost of living crisis, a direct outcome of voting for Brexit. You shall reap what you sow.

If I was a British soldier I would refuse to cross any picket line. I would be courts martialed for it but so be it. There are some things that honorable people just do not do, and crossing a picket line is one of these.

The British government said Sunday it will dispatch 1,200 troops to fill in for striking ambulance drivers and border staff as multiple public sector unions walk off the job in the week before Christmas.

Sending in 1,200 troops - what's the other half of the British army doing?

The UK’s most intense strike wave for decades is a response to a cost-of-living crisis driven by soaring food and energy prices in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

A cost of living crisis driven by poor government, Brexit the covid recovery and failed sanctions that hurt the UK much more than Russia.

Brexit has got nothing to do with the strikes. The ambulance people, the post people, the nurse and health people, the border control people have all been striking practically every other year well before brexit.Low wages are the problem.

Send in the army is always the card played by every desperate government without an off-ramp when its authority is called out by the people it is supposed to serve. The NHS has been systematically undermined and hollowed out by shady players truffling for profits, another facet of the UK debacle of crisis after crisis under the rightwing Tories which now threatens a "more rightwing than thou" solution. The electorate had better not fall for the snake-oil of a fascistic solution hawked by ruthless desperados on the extreme right.

I get your sentiment but this is not peoples rubbish going uncollected, it's lives a stake.

Then pay these people what they are worth. This, btw, is not a problem confined to the UK. Nurses and paramedics are grossly underpaid and over worked in the US as well.

Sending in 1,200 troops - what's the other half of the British army doing?

Some are training Ukrainians to fight NATOs war.

u_s__reamerToday  11:34 am JST

a nice summation.... but the populace will certainly go for the snake-oil.... especially if it's poured on the bread they are given to munch while watching the next circus dreamed up for their numbification... I mean.... 'entertainment' nothing much positive has happened since the inauguration of the NHS, my view, and that was a damned long time ago....

The UK Ambulance Service used to be one of the finest in the world. Now it's in a diabolic state.

Dying people on the streets waiting many hours for an ambulance to arrive. Daily horror stories in the media.

What happened to the £350 million per week Boris promised on his bus?

https://e3.365dm.com/16/06/2048x1152/gettyimages-531883850-1-2048x1536_3490755.jpg

The annual number of paramedics in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2010 to 2021

https://www.statista.com/statistics/318931/number-of-paramedics-in-the-uk/

If I was a British soldier I would refuse to cross any picket line. 

I don't think there are any picket lines for the ambulance worker strikes at the NHS. The military have been used before when ambulance workers went on strike. There was no animosity that I recall. But the military were fairly incompetent, which is no surprise given their lack of experience in that field. In some ways, it added to the workers' cause.

The troops don't know the local streets. Not used to dealing with civilians. But can't be worse than the current service.